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progeny

[proj-uh-nee] / ˈprɒdʒ ə ni /


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And Standard Oil’s progeny formed the core of the “Seven Sisters” oil majors that divvied up among themselves the Middle East’s resources until the 1970s.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Rich men can afford to support lots of progeny they never have to see.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025

She’s a PhD student who disappears into some kind of meditation retreat invented by reality-star progeny Penelope Disick.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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